I was excited by the announcement but then

> Runs in an isolated sandbox Every task runs in a secure, isolated Daytona sandbox.

Oh, so fake open source? Daytona is an AGPL-licensed codebase that doesn't actually open-source the control plane, and the first instruction in the README is to sign up for their service.

> From the "open-swe" README:

Open SWE can be used in multiple ways:

* From the UI. You can create, manage and execute Open SWE tasks from the web application. See the 'From the UI' page in the docs for more information.

* From GitHub. You can start Open SWE tasks directly from GitHub issues simply by adding a label open-swe, or open-swe-auto (adding -auto will cause Open SWE to automatically accept the plan, requiring no intervention from you). For enhanced performance on complex tasks, use open-swe-max or open-swe-max-auto labels which utilize Claude Opus 4.1 for both planning and programming. See the 'From GitHub' page in the docs for more information.

* * *

The "from the UI" links to their hosted web interface. If I cannot run it myself it's fake open-source

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mitchitized 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Hol up

How can it be AGPL and not provide full source? AGPL is like the most aggressive of the GPL license variants. If they somehow circumvented the intent behind this license that is a problem.

	▲	Multicomp 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Spitballing here but if it's their code that they have copyright on, they can license it to us as agpl, without binding themselves to those same terms. They have all rights as copyright holders regardless of a given license.
	▲	victorbjorklund 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		AGPL is a license to others and not the copyright owner. If you own the copyright you dont need the license at all.

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esafak 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a hosted service with an open source client?